(6044) Hammer-Purgstall
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Asteroid (6044) Hammer-Purgstall |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Gefion family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7747 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1557 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3427 AU - 3.2066 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.9033 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 1.2458 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 308.5786 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.62 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.88 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Freimut Börngen Lutz D. Schmadel |
| Date of discovery | September 13, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 RW 4 , 1977 RF 10 , 1987 YN 3 |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
(6044) Hammer-Purgstall is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 13, 1991 by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in the Tautenburg Forest in Thuringia .
The asteroid is named after the Austrian diplomat and orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774–1856), who is considered the founder of scientific Ottoman studies and an Austrian pioneer of oriental studies . He founded the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1847 and was its first president from 1848 to 1849.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Hammer-Purgstall: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Hammer-Purgstall in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6044) Hammer-Purgstall in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).